<p>I can't believe I'm actually doing this, but I just want to know other people's opinions.</p>
<p>Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Asian
School: Large public school (1,400 students) in Massachusetts</p>
<p>Rank: 8/329
GPA: 4.1 weighted GPA
Rigor: I took every AP course offered except AP Stats. (APUSH, AP English Lit, AP English Lang., AP American Gov., and AP Calc.) plus two other AP courses online. (AP Spanish Lang. and AP French Lang.)</p>
<p>SAT: CR-710, W-690, M-660 (I know these aren't that great, but my scores are in the top 1% of my school. Hopefully that will be a factor)
SAT II:
-Spanish with Listening- 780
-French- 690</p>
<p>ECs:
-Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy- four week immersion program sponsored by Middlebury College. I attended in 2009 for French and 2010 for Spanish
-Student Council (9-12)
-NHS (11-12)- Vice President (12)
-Massachusetts Boys' State- leadership program. June 2010
-Varsity swim team (9-12)
-Rec. swim team (9-12)
-Local orchestra (9-12)
-WPI Math Meet team member (12)
-Student tutor (10-12)
-Subway Restaurant employee (10-12)
-Church Youth Group member (9-12)</p>
<p>Awards:
-Foreign Language Award for French and Spanish (9-12)
-SWE Award for Excellence in Math and Science
-AIC book award</p>
<p>Recs:
-Counselor's rec. has a lot of praise and lists my accomplishments, but I don't think it's anything extraordinary.
-Teacher rec. from my Spanish teacher and NHS adviser. I've never read other people's recs. to gauge the quality of recs., but I think it's safe to say that this rec. is amazing.
-Teacher rec. from my English teacher. Also amazing and very specific. She wrote about some specific assignments of mine that she especially liked.</p>
<p>Essay:
Common App- I wrote about my being Asian does not mean I excel in Math and Science. This essay also explains why some of my Math grades aren't spectacular, but how I still take the challenge. My English teacher with a Doctorate in English said it was amazing.</p>
<p>You look like a good candidate although I’ve afraid your scores might be a bit low. Have you tried the ACT? Also, you may want to consider some schools like Bowdoin, Bates, and Connecticut College which are test optional. Good luck!</p>
<p>D, you do have many ways to reach the admision. Scores are not great as you have said, but that is not going to be the make/break factor;
You do have a lot of developmental potential in language. That will your assest.
I believe your essay would be cruicial to your application.
If you want to PM your essay I can better chance you.
B</p>
<p>I have the same advise I posted you on the Williams board-you may be accepted, but better follow hohum’s advise. You are a qualified applicant, but not an outstanding one. You will have a better chance if you can play a D3 sport, or in the music ensembles at Midd.</p>
<p>Ugh. My times in swimming are somewhat up to par to swim D3 in college, but I ABSOLUTELY DO NOT want to swim in college. Swimming is the bane of my existence, and I do not want to become a college swimmer whose whole college career is dedicated to the sport. As for violin, I am a mediocre player. I have been playing since I was 8, but I’ve never really been passionate about it, maybe because I’m a typical Asian whose parents forced him to start taking violin and piano lessons at a young age.</p>
<p>Well, I’d look at Bates, etc-your test scores are not going to help you at these selective schools.
That sounds too negative-you’ll know soon if you should look at some standardized test optional schools-I’m sure you are qualified, it’s just the competition may have better stats, and adcoms have tp split very fine hairs.</p>
<p>I think you are a very strong candidate. You have a difficult course load and a lot of extra curriculars. Test scores are not all that they look at and even though you’re scores aren’t outstanding I still think you have a very good chance of getting in. Especially because of your interest in languages which Middlebury I’m sure has particular interest in.</p>